Principles of Prosperity in the Kingdom of God

THE PRINCIPLES OF PROSPERITY IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD
M.M.NINAN
Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.
Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Give,
and
it will be given to you.
A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over,
will be poured into your lap.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
We receive the same measure, of course , pressed down and
multiplied. So if you give in thimbles, you receive back in thimbles. If
you measure in sacks, you receive a hundredfold in sacks. There is a
beautiful story illustrating this idea by the poet Laureate of India
Rabindranath Tagore in his collection of short stories, "The King and
the Beggar". The gist is as follows. One day a beggar heard that the
King was passing through the place where he was standing. As the
chariot passed by, the beggar stretched out his begging bowl
expecting a coin at least from the great King. But the King stopped his
chariot and he stretched out his hand begging the beggar. The beggar
was first perplexed. But the King insisted. Finally the beggar took out
his begging bowl and took out a pinch of his little rice - three grains of
rice- and placed it in the palms of the King. The king withdrew his palm
and he stretched it out once more and placed a pinch of rice back into
the beggars bowl. Lo! There were three grains of rice in gold. And the
King went his way. The beggar looked at the three golden grains and
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